Duration: 7'54''
A summary of the Great War with interviews by veterans.
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10: What Are Our Allies Doing? | The Great War
The war continues throughout 1915. Towering over all else was the mighty German offensive of Gorlice-Tarnow, where the Russian...
11: Hell Cannot Be So Terrible | The Great War
This episode looks at the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest clashes in history, which lasted for ten months during 1916.
12: For Gawd's Sake Don't Send Me | The Great War
Over two million volunteers respond to Kitchener's appeal of 1916, and many are sent to the killing grounds of the Somme.
13: The Devil Is Coming | The Great War
The Battle of the Somme began in July 1916. By February 1917, an irreparable blow had been struck at the German Army, but at the cost...
14: All This It Is Our Duty to Bear | The Great War
By the end of 1916 a compromise peace is considered, but the new leaders are committed to seeking total victory - at any ...
15: We Are Betrayed, Sold, Lost | The Great War
This episode explores the attempts to rally the French Army for a spring offensive, but they began to openly mutiny.
16: Right Is More Precious than Peace | The Great War
In 1917, the October revolution brought the Communists to power in Russia, while America entered into the war on 6th Ap...
17: Surely We Have Perished | The Great War
Morale becomes impossible to sustain as the battle of Passchendaele lasts through the summer of 1917.
18: Fat Rodzyanko Has Sent me Some Nonsense | The Great War
Following the October Revolution, Russian enthusiasm for the war heartens the Allies and alarms the Germans.
19: The Hell where Youth and Laughter Go | The Great War
A look at the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front and the effect this had upon the human spirit.
2: For Such a Stupid Reason, Too | The Great War
Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, international diplomacy breaks down completely.
20: Only War, Nothing But War | The Great War
The war has evolved from an old-fashioned localised conflict to an all-engulfing 'total' war involving entire nations.
21: It Was Like the End of the World | The Great War
Germany takes a huge risk, launching a massive offensive in early 1918, aiming to achieve victory before the Americans a...
22: Damn Them, Are They Never Coming In? | The Great War
The German army launched a successful counter-attack in May 1918, but it was is too late - the Americans had arrived.
23: When Must the End Be? | The Great War
By 5 August, the Germans had once again been driven back to the River Aisne. This was the turning point of the war. Six days later,...
24: Allah Made Mesopotamia and Added Flies | The Great War
With the Western Front dominating the minds of generals and statesmen, they sought a back door to victory - the Mi...
25: The Iron Thrones are Falling | The Great War
The penultimate episode recounts the collapse of Germany's Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian allies.
26: And We Were Young | The Great War
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year 1918, the Armistice came into effect.
3: We Must Hack Our Way Through | The Great War
Following the declaration of war, the German army began to carry out the Schlieffen Plan, perhaps the most famous military pl...
4: Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre | The Great War
As the German forces advance on Paris, the French commander-in-chief General Joffre builds up a surer resistance.
0: Goes Back in Time | Operation Ouch!
Dr Chris and Dr Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War. They meet a Paralympian runner who...
01: Retreat | Dunkirk (2004)
The Allies are in retreat, but the Navy can only pick up a few soldiers and Churchill is advised to make peace to save the rest.
1: 1918 Western Front | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields
The Snows visit Northern France to tell the story of the 1918 Battle of Amiens.
1: Advance Britannia | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr revisits Britain in 1945 and finds the country victorious but nearly bankrupt, beginning a battle ...
1: Berlin 1945-48 | History File
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khr...
1: Commemoration | Not Forgotten
Commemoration, examining the movement for war memorials following the First World War, and the continuation of this tradition for subsequent...
1: David Lloyd George | Great Britons (1990)
John Grigg narrates the life of David Lloyd George. As Lloyd George's biographer, Grigg remarks, ''My father knew Lloyd George''...
1: Deja Vu (1858-1961) | The Vietnam War
Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.
1: Explosion | 1914-1918
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict.
1: Martial Races | The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire
David Olusoga challenges our perceptions of the First World War with the stories of the millions of Indian, ...
1: The Approach of War | History File
The first section asks who was to blame for the war.
1: The Dreadnoughts of Scapa Flow | War at Sea: Scotland's Story
First of a two-part documentary in which David Hayman uncovers the story of the battle for control of the No...
1: War Comes to Britain | Britain's Great War
Jeremy Paxman presents a four-part documentary charting how the First World War affected Great Britain, with this episode focus...
10: 1939: Total War | People's Century
The Second World War enmeshes civilians to the horrors of war on an unprecedented scale.
10: Cuba: 1959-1962 | Cold War
Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...
10: The Weight of Memory (March 1973-Onward) | The Vietnam War
While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.
10: Wolf Pack | The World at War
German U-boats cause havoc among Allied merchant shipping in the Atlantic.
11: 1945: Brave New World | People's Century
Despite being allies against Hitler, disagreement and rivalry soon break out between the Soviet Union and the West, leading to t...
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